Jian Zhou's vision, however, stretched much further than hers.
Not only did he get close to Jiang Ling and leverage her special luck to break through the situation, but he also didn't forget to use his advantage of foreknowledge from his past life, heavily investing in real estate and the stock market.
By buying low, short-selling, and leveraging, he earned tens of billions in over two years, making money as easily as scooping seawater.
At this moment, with substantial capital, even without the Jian family's influence, it would be a breeze to deal with Shen Mingjue.
Through memories from his past life, Jian Zhou knew that in a couple of days Shen Mingjue would be bidding for a piece of land.
This land was the "building king" of the year, with a transfer price as high as over eight billion yuan.
Although Shen family's assets were publicly declared as a thousand-billion-yuan group.
Those so-called companies with a market value of a hundred billion were full of bubbles, and sometimes they couldn't even come up with one billion in liquid cash.
This bidding amount of eight billion was already the limit of the company's book liquidity.
In his previous life, Shen Mingjue, with the protagonist's halo, received internal information in advance, knew there was an issue with this land, and withdrew from the bidding when it reached a fever pitch.
Afterwards, the land was exposed to have a grand Spring and Autumn period vassal king's mausoleum of the Jia-character type underground. The archaeology department immediately dispatched, launching a rescue excavation.
Archaeology is meticulous work. Buried underground were hundreds of billions worth of cultural relics, subjected to the ravages of time, many had become very fragile.
Therefore, when excavating ancient cities, one must handle them with care, light touches, and gentle placement, not rushing at all.
With such meticulousness and slowness, the excavation time for a mausoleum could range from several months to five or six years.
Especially for mausoleums of vassal kings from the Spring and Autumn, Qin, and Han periods, when burial customs were prevalent, the mausoleums were large, with abundant burial goods, and the time taken would be even longer.
Such Jia-character type grand mausoleums generally took more than ten years to complete excavation.
Real estate is an industry of high turnover, high leverage, and high inventory, extremely dependent on cash flow. Even a delay of half a year to a year could cause a rupture in the capital chain, let alone over a decade of archaeological excavation.
As soon as the news broke, the company that bought the land saw its stock price plummet, hitting the limit down, and eventually went bankrupt due to a broken cash flow and insolvency.
Jian Zhou knew this well and had already sent people to keep an eye on it.
When the land auction began, and competition for this plot reached a fever pitch, the company that was locked in a battle with the Shen family suddenly withdrew.
"8.2 billion once, 8.2 billion twice, 8.2 billion three times, congratulations to Shen Group for acquiring Plot 316!"
In this life, being secretly obstructed by Jian Zhou, Shen Mingjue did not receive internal information. Upon hearing this bidding result, he was overjoyed.
This plot was a rare golden piece of land in this year's auction. Although the price was a bit higher than expected, the profit would be substantial if developed well after purchase.
Shen Mingjue was ecstatic, thinking he had completed a great deal.
Who would have thought that three days later, whispers spread like wildfire that Plot 316 had an ancient tomb, suspected to be of a Spring and Autumn Warring States vassal king level.
Seeing this news, Shen Mingjue's face turned pale.
He frantically instructed his assistant to quickly inquire about the situation, to see if these whispers were true.
If confirmed, these 8.2 billion yuan in cash would truly be thrown into the sea.
Affected by the rumors, the Shen Group's stock price plummeted, showing a bleak green for several consecutive days.
Shen Mingjue quickly had people issue a statement to deny the rumors, saying they were all false and there was no ancient tomb.
However, for stock market investors, it was better to believe it exists than not to believe it doesn't. The more Shen Group explained, the more certain they became that the land had an ancient tomb.